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Then he thought instinctively about money. Although still a boy, money as a prime factor was already firmly established in his mind. He reflected with dismay that he had only his Wardway tickets, and about three dollars beside. It was now dark. The vaguest visions of what they were to do in New York were in his head.
Usually the two trains met at the station. However, the New York train had only just pulled out of sight before the Wardway train came in. As Maria climbed on the train she felt a paper thrust forcibly into her hand, which closed over it instinctively. She sat with Maud, and had no opportunity to look at it all the way to Wardway. She slipped it slyly into her Algebra. Maud's eyes were sharp.
"She was down at the station and told me how Evelyn was lost, and then she went in with me." Maud laughed her aggravating laugh again. "Well, maybe it was just as well she did," she said, "or else they would have said you and Wollaston had eloped, sure." Maria began to speak, but her voice was drowned by the rumble of the New York train on the other track. The Wardway train was late.
My mummer says that folks that bear up the best are the ones that feel things most. My mummer went over to see if she could do anything and see how she took it." "When was she lost?" gasped Maria. She was shaking from head to foot. "Your step-mother went down to the store, and when she got back the baby was gone. Josephine said she hadn't seen her after you had started for Wardway.
"Well, look out that you eat a good luncheon," said Harry, as he kissed her good-bye. Maria had to go to the other side to take her Wardway train. She left her father and went under the bridge and mounted the stairs.
She was seeking new doors of liberty for her own ways, in lieu of those which she saw were closed to her, and by the time dinner was served she was quite sure that she had succeeded. The next autumn, Maria began attending the Elliot Academy, in Wardway. The Elliot Academy was an endowed school of a very high standing, and Wardway was a large town, almost a city, about fifteen miles from Edgham.
When I got off the train, there was Maria and that little Mann girl. She was down at the station when she got home from Wardway, Maria says, and those two children went right off to New York." "Did they?" said Ida, in a listless voice. She had resumed her seat in her rocking-chair. "Edwin Shaw said he thought he saw Evelyn getting on the New York train this morning," said Maria, faintly.
Before they reached Wardway, Wollaston's red carnation was fastened at one side of her embroidered vest, making a discord of color which, for Maria, was a harmony of young love and romance. "That is the academy," said Wollaston, as the train rolled into Wardway. He pointed to a great brick structure at the right a main building flanked by enormous wings. "Are you frightened?" he asked.
"Good-night, M'ria!" she sung out, and was gone, a slim, flying figure in the gloom. "Are you afraid to go alone?" Harry called after her, in some uncertainty. "Land, no!" came cheerily back. "How happened she to be with you?" asked Harry. "She was down at the station when I came home from Wardway," replied Maria, faintly. Her strength was almost gone.
She took another stitch in her collar, with Evelyn leaning against her and kicking out first one chubby leg, then the other, and she immediately erected new air-castles, in which she figured in her brown suit with the touches of burnt-orange and blue. A week later, when she started on the train for Wardway in her new attire, she felt entirely satisfied with herself and life in general.
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